This is a Node.js command line application that reads in movie reviews and then composes "tweets" for readers to share.
Before the application can be run, ensure Node.js has been installed on your computer by running the following command on your terminal:
$ node -v
Output example:
$ v14.16.1
If Node is not installed on your computer, you can follow the instructions outlined here.
Once Node is installed on your computer, navigate to the home directory of the folder downloaded:
Example:
user-mbp $ ls
movie-tweets
user-mbp $ cd moview-tweets
user-mbp > moview-tweets $
You'll need to run the following command in your terminal to install the necessary node packages the application depends on:
$ npm install
To run the application, you'll need to pass two positional arguments; reviews.json and movies.json:
$ node main.js reviews.json movies.json
Expected output:
Star Wars (1977): Great, this film was ★★★★
Star Wars The Force Awake (2015): A long time ago in a galaxy far far away someone made the best sci-fi film of all time. Then some chap ★★½
Metropolis: Another movie about a robot. Very strong futuristic look. But also very very old. Hard to understand what was happening becaus ★
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Hilarious Kubrick satire ★★★★★
Plan 9 from outer space (1959): So bad it's bad ½
This application uses two testing libraries; Mocha and Chai. It contains one test file, tweetRules.test.js, which tests the functions in the tweetRules.js file.
Before running the test, please ensure your "scripts" in package.json looks like the example below:
"scripts": {
"test": "mocha '*.test.js' --recursive"
}
To begin testing, run the following command on your terminal:
$ npm test
Expected output:
> movie-tweets@1.0.0 test
> mocha '*.test.js' --recursive
Tweet Rules
countChar()
✔ should return the number of characters of a tweet
starRating()
✔ should convert the review score to a star rating
generateTweet()
✔ should return a tweet string
truncateStr()
✔ should trim the string according to remainder limit
remainderCount()
✔ should return the difference between the tweet count and tweet character limit
updateReview()
✔ should return a new review string
6 passing (48ms)